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# Map media and titles to zones

Send each Project List item to its zone. Once the project has a zone layout, any media clip, title, or live video source can name a zone as its destination — the item renders inside that zone’s rectangle instead of the full frame. Media clips and live video also choose their own fit and fill treatment; titles always letterbox into their zone with a transparent surround.

## Assign an item to a zone

1. Select the item in the Project List.
2. Open the item’s **Transform** tab in its properties. Until an item is assigned, its zone reads **Unassigned**.
3. Click **Zone Assignment** and pick the zone. The item now plays inside that zone’s rectangle.
4. For a media clip or live video source, choose its **Fit Mode**:
   * **Fill (Crop)** — the content covers the zone completely, cropping what overflows.
   * **Fit** — the whole picture letterboxes inside the zone; **Fill Color** paints the leftover space.
   * **Stretch** — the content distorts to the zone’s exact shape.

{% hint style="info" %}
The Zone Layout Editor names the same treatments from the zone’s side — its **Center** corresponds to **Fill (Crop)** here, and **Aspect Fit** to **Fit**.
{% endhint %}

An item with no zone assignment behaves as it always has — it composites against the full project frame.

## What this looks like on a board

A typical installation gives every surface its own zones: the main display carries a **Main Zone** for video and an **Info Zone** for the score bug; the ribbon carries a chain of ad zones; a pylon carries a vertical leaderboard. Your media clips target the ad zones, the scoreboard graphic targets the info zone, and the live camera targets the main zone — one project, every surface fed, each independently.

Zones are addressed **by name**, so swapping to a different layout with the same zone names re-flows everything automatically — the content follows the names into their new rectangles.

## Related

* [Set up a zone layout](/set-up-your-production/chapter-index-1/set-up-a-zone-layout.md)
* [Control zones from shots](/set-up-your-production/chapter-index-1/control-zones-from-shots.md)
* [Create a media sequence](/design-and-customize-graphics/chapter-index-7/create-a-media-sequence.md) — sequence clips, then send the sequence to a zone.


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